There are plenty of unusual venues in electronic music. Warehouses, caves, desert plains, rooftops, ancient ruins. But an active marble quarry — one that still functions as an industrial extraction site, where the stone beneath your feet is the same stone that has built cities and sculptures for centuries — is something else entirely.
That’s where Andrea Casta chose to record “The Sounds Of Marble” his new site-specific audiovisual project, filmed this past June at the Botticino Marble Quarry in Brescia, Italy. The result is a 22-minute live performance and an official music video for “Fragments”, his latest single on Gameroom/Black Hole Recordings — a track that reached number one on Beatport’s Hype MainStage Chart before the cameras at the quarry had even started rolling.
A Stage Built From the Ground Up — Literally
The production alone is worth a moment. The stage wasn’t brought to the quarry — it was built from it. Extracted stone blocks formed the physical structure of the performance space, with projected marble walls surrounding the setup and a lighting and laser show spanning two levels over a distance of 300 meters. The crew behind it — video team Light & Magic and production company BeNow s.c.p.a. — worked with Casta over months to translate the conceptual ambition of the project into something that could actually be filmed with an 8-camera setup and experienced as a coherent piece of work.
The result sits somewhere between a live recording, a music video, and a site-specific art installation — three formats that don’t usually share the same footage, let alone the same quarry.
The Laser Bow in Context
If you’ve seen Andrea Casta perform, you already know about the laser bow. It’s his signature — a modified violin bow that doubles as a laser instrument, creating visual trails of light that interact with the performance space in real time. At the Botticino quarry, with 300 meters of industrial architecture as a backdrop and projected stone surfaces on every wall, the bow found arguably its most dramatic context yet.
Casta’s live format is built around the integration of the electric violin directly into the DJ set — not as an ornament or a breakdown moment, but as a continuous presence, with real-time audio effects creating a dialogue between the strings and the electronics. It’s a format he has refined across 200 performances a year in 32 countries, in front of more than 3 million live viewers, and at events ranging from the Italian Formula 1 Grand Prix at Monza to the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.
The quarry performance is the most site-specific thing he’s done with that format — and by his own account, the most conceptually loaded.
What “Fragments” Is Actually About
The single isn’t incidental to the location. In Casta’s framing, “Fragments” extends a conceptual thread that began with his previous single “Reconnection” — both tracks exploring what he calls the “Digital Renaissance”, the collision between the fragmentation of contemporary digital life and the physical, historical weight of the world we actually inhabit.
“Sculpting music inside an active marble quarry was a conceptual and visual challenge, resulting in a work that transforms a monumental site of history and hard work into a unique narrative and visual stage,”
A marble quarry — ancient, industrial, scarred by extraction, built on the labor of generations — is about as physical and historical a setting as you can find. Casta’s description of the project is precise: the track and the performance converge at the intersection of digital fragmentation and physical reality, with the location’s history, people, and craft forming the narrative ground beneath the music. It’s a conceptual frame that could easily read as overworked in a press release. At the Botticino quarry, filmed across two levels of stone and light with a laser bow cutting through the darkness, it reads as something closer to earned.
“Within this framework, ‘Fragments’ fits seamlessly — a track born from the concept of the ‘Digital Renaissance’ previously explored in ‘Reconnection’ (my prior single). It synthesizes my sonic evolution, weaving the emotional pulls of trance with the raw power and energy of the MainStage sound. The track and performance converge at the intersection of our daily digital fragmentation and physical reality — deeply rooted in the history of the location, its people, and their craft, with music serving as the narrative glue.” – Andrea Casta
Still Moving — Summer 2026
“The Sounds Of Marble” is a document of a specific event, but Casta is far from standing still. His Club Tour Summer 2026 is currently running across Italy — Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Calabria, and Sardinia — bringing the Space Violin format to the country’s summer club circuit while the quarry footage finds its audience online.
Rudy (32) currently based in Bergamo, here since 2019.
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